Total gross motor tax receipts and the number of motor tax transactions by year and duration of vehicle licence for each of the years requested are contained in Table 1. It should be noted that this does not equate to the total number of vehicles taxed in each of the years concerned, as some owners will have exercised more than on e option in a particular year and a breakdown of this data is not readily available. The total number of vehicles taxed at the end of December in each of the years concerned is contained in Table 2.
Table 1 – Gross motor tax receipts and number of vehicle licences taken out.
Year
|
Total Gross Motor Tax Receipts (€)
|
Annual licences
|
Half Year licences
|
Quarterly licences
|
Total Number of licences
|
2010
|
1,023,823,935
|
1,464,303
|
742,973
|
2,357,600
|
4,564,876
|
2011
|
1,010,419,164
|
1,480,747
|
705,846
|
2,436,273
|
4,622,866
|
2012
|
1,054,701,750
|
1,448,517
|
682,496
|
2,481,073
|
4,612,086
|
Table 2 – Number of vehicle under taxation at end of December 2010, 2011 and 2012.
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|
No. of vehicles taxed
|
31 December 2010
|
2,416,387
|
31 December 2011
|
2,425,156
|
31 December 2012
|
2,403,223
|